It was yesterday

Andy

Between five mountain peaks, like a deer’s antler
joining together at the crown of the valley
Mount Kebnakaise disappears into the snowy blue light in front of us.

Hard to tell where sky begins and mountain ends
Majestic, powerful, silent, incredible

Standing on a road bridge with mountains rising all around,we crunch across the hard ground as snowflakes whirl about us.
Today maybe is the day friends back home say farewell to Andy,
We stand here in the northern light and remember him too

Tom wishes he had been there but maybe his friend would be happier knowing
he was somewhere beautiful,
turning down the evil’.

m.joy

30/01/2007

Stronger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEZDP_NVklc

Found a mahalo ukulele from hawaii for my son for Christmas and my hope is that he will learn to play and maybe learn some blues, maybe black summer rain by Eric Clapton

                  
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wondering why hornets are visiting our roof..

and despite their bad press - when we encouraged the ones inside the window to leave or just were in the room with them, they were very gentle although sounded terrifying

thinking about it - guess they were relieved they had found a way to escape and carry on their plan whatever it might be and as they flew away into the garden could almost imagine it was happily

reallised if we hurt one, we'd probably have the whole pack after us

thinking about the 'why us' or 'why me' besides there are not enough hollow trees in our area.. as thought hornets are rare in the south east, looked for a significance and found a website about animal symbolism and encountering a wasp nor least a whole nest of hornets could be seen as a sign to express yourselves more clearly, align with your goals, stop procrastinating and reach your potential - amongst other things, consider how you communicate. They are also master architects and maybe a symbol to encourage you to build on your dream... or that our attic when they've finished with us.. will look like a hangar at heathrow airport.

The room they were moving through was my son's. Although not buddhist sometimes wonder about different beliefs and found another site called Journey of the Soul. its about kharma

Hornets

Probably not good to read this if you have a thing about things that creep...

Funny how things are connected.. some weeks ago after heavy rain, noticed water coming through a flat roof into upstairs room and on a rainy dark night we needed to put a tarpoline over our roof.

Some weeks went by and noticed few huge noisy wasps in other room upstairs but thought they were coming in from outside. Looked them up and thought they were wood wasps and didnt worry. Then more and more of the wasps were filling the room even though we were getting them out the window and more kept arriving. Almost a swarm especially early evening when the lights went on. Read up a bit more about wood wasps and started to worry they might be eating up the loft.

Noticed new ones in the room even though the windows were shut. Hair on back of my neck prickling just thinking about it

Spent some time looking for holes where they could get in - in the ceiling and the floor - then noticed one of them popping out of a hole in the ceiling, that wasnt there earlier. Instinct to run out of the room screaming

Lots of chats later and photographs sent to Defra experts and seems they are hornets but Europian ones - Told they are Gentle Giants who dont want to attack unless they feel threatened and probably have been living in our loft since the spring but when the roof sprang a leak and we tarpolined it and blocked their exit - we upset the status quo and so they munched their way through into upstairs room to get to an exit. Visions of 300 hornets munching away our ceiling. Seems the hornets that were filling the room could be the male ones looking for a way to get out and look for nectar who would go back to the nest by a route they knew - so would be congregating back on the tarpoline - feeling miffed.


Thinking about it remember hearing a little scratching noise from the ceiling - back in the spring but thought it might be a mouse and too scared to go in the loft to find it.

Advice to block up the hole and used a cd and tape, then read the one thing you should never do - with wasps or hornets is block up the entrance to their nest as they panic and gnaw through just about anything to find another way out. That sounds about right.

Been told not to go in the loft until January - when the nest has died and we can remove it and see what has happened up there. Not sure if i want to.